CVE-2010-3814: FreeType

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ins_SHZ function in ttinterp.c in FreeType 2.4.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted SHZ bytecode instruction, related to TrueType opcodes, as demonstrated by a PDF document with a crafted embedded font.

Affected products

• FreeType FreeType: up to and including 2.4.3; version 1.3.1 only; version 2.0.6 only; version 2.0.9 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.1.3 only; …

Published 2010-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.